Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: Kelly Olynyk remains undervalued

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We’re entering the home stretch. There are only three more weeks left of the 2024-25 regular season. Plenty of fantasy leagues have wrapped up, while others are entering their championship weeks.

Unfortunately, that lines up with plenty of teams pulling the plug on their season. Whether to intentionally improve lottery odds or to allow their stars to rest before the postseason, there are a lot of lineup shenanigans going on every single night across the league. That makes it quite difficult to find a reliable player to add off the waiver wire. Sometimes, players go from playing 20 minutes a night to randomly not being part of the rotation. Did anyone else have to stream Tristan Vukcevic last week and is bitter about him playing four minutes against New York on Saturday? Or was that just me?

These players have upside as streaming options (or in some cases are simply low-rostered players), but that sadly doesn’t make them safe.

PF/C Kelly Olynyk (16% rostered in Yahoo! leagues), New Orleans Pelicans

Olynyk has been locked into a starting role since being traded to New Orleans, and he had one of his best games as a Pelican on Monday. He contributed 14 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists and three steals in just 30 minutes. Over the past two weeks he has averaged 11.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.2 steals in 26.9 minutes per game. Unfortunately, they only have two more games this week, which means that it may be best to wait to pick Olynyk up until this weekend since they play on Friday and Sunday.

SF/PF Aaron Nesmith (28%), Indiana Pacers

Nesmith spent a large portion of the season injured, but since returning in January, he has only missed one game. He finished with 17 points, seven rebounds and three triples on Monday while making seven of his nine shot attempts. Nesmith ranks 75th in nine-cat leagues over the past two weeks, per Basketball Monster.

PG/SG Anthony Black (4%), Orlando Magic

Though he has been inconsistent and disappointing for most of the season, the 2023 lottery pick has displayed some flashes recently. Over Orlando’s last four games, he has averaged 13.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.3…

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